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Category Archives: Travel
MSA Field Trip Films
Year 3 students have just completed presentation to Eamonn Canniffe of their Semester 1 Humanities submissions – films of buildings they visited and studied during their autumn 2006 fieldtrips in Europe. The first group of films have been posted on … Continue reading
Posted in CiA, Mitteleuropa, Sally Stone, Student Projects, Travel
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Looking away
What happens when you turn away from the familiar view? For reverse view click here.
Posted in Andrea Palladio, CiA, Dominic Roberts, Italy, Travel
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Autunno a Milano
Click here for pictures of the CiA Year 5 study trip to Milan.
Posted in CiA, Italy, Milan, Sally Stone, Students, Studio Programme Year 5, Travel
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The details of modern architecture
Doppelhaus/Two-family house by Le Corbusier at Weissenhofseidlung Stuttgart. Picture taken in 1983. Peter Moro’s sketchbook
Posted in CiA, Dominic Roberts, Le Corbusier, Practice, Travel
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Slaves to Architecture
As your correspondents strolled leisurely through Milan after a long and ample lunch, we observed that the city was indeed as ‘tough as nails’, as Yvonne Farrell had remarked. The general lack of exterior detail on the early twentieth century … Continue reading
The worst place in the world to play frisbee
One of two overflows on the dam of the Ladybower reservoir, Derbyshire. The sizes of the steps are distributed hyperbolically meaning that it is impossible to lean over to see the bottom no matter how far down the hole you … Continue reading
Mantua
The overt feature of this picture is the facade of the cathedral planted fimly on the earlier brick structure, but look at the line of the kerb to the pavement (sidewalk) as it progresses from the corner of the cathedral … Continue reading
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St Mark, Bjorkhagen
St Mark, Bjorkhagen, Stockholm. Sigurd Lewerentz. St Mark, Bjorkhagen. Through the birch wood. St Mark is one of two brown brick churches completed by this architect in the ’50s and ’60s (the other is St Peter’s, Klippan). Like St Peter’s … Continue reading
Posted in Churches, CiA, Dominic Roberts, Sigurd Lewerentz, Sweden, Travel
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Klippan photoset
Church of St Peter, Klippan, Sweden. Sigurd Lewerentz 1963-1966. Photoset. Yes, it’s dark in there.
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Malmo sketch
Sigurd Lewerentz worked on the Malmo Eastern Cemetery from 1916 until 1969. The cemetery is the site of his final building. The first impression of the cemetery is disappointing – the initial impact of the Woodland Cemetery in Stockholm is … Continue reading
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Restaurant recommendation: ‘Da Ugo’ Rome
Continuity in Architecture demands good food – the sketch was supplied by Robert Evans of Evans Vettori Architects, Matlock direct from this atmospheric Roman trattoria.
Posted in Aventinus, CiA, Italy, Restaurants, Rome, Travel
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The Last Building
The final building by Sigurd Lewerentz is a small flower stall completed in 1969 for Malmo East Cemetery. The original simple mono-pitch form has been recently extended. The original building is charming and elegant. It is sited parallel with the … Continue reading
Posted in CiA, Dominic Roberts, Sigurd Lewerentz, Sweden, Travel
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